PhD in Sciences

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ecology Institute.

Mexico City, MX

2017 - 2012

• Title: Patterns of diversification and adaptation of the Vibrionaceae family. The case of Cuatro Cienegas.
• Advisor: Dr. Valeria Souza Saldivar.
• Description: I examined the evolutionary footprints of local adaptation in the genomes of bacteria isolated from a highly oligotrophic environment in Cuatro Cienegas (CCB), Mexico. I obtained 200 axenic isolates of Vibrionaceae, a group of bacteria with a cosmopolitan distribution, from several ponds around the CCB aquatic system. I identified the patterns of genetic variation among Vibrionaceae isolates, looking for signals of adaptation to structured (Water column) and non-structured (Sediments) environments within the ponds, as well; I analyzed whether the recombination patterns were associated with these environments or constrained to the lineage history. Since several members of Vibrionaceae possess pathogenic relatives, I also evaluate the hypothesis that the members of Vibrionaceae isolated from Cuatro Cienegas (CCB) had no pathogenic genomic elements, under the assumption that bacteria from CCB rarely get into contact with other bacteria, like oceanic Vibrionaceae.

B.Sc. in Biology

National Autonomous University of Mexico, FES Iztacala

Mexico City, MX

2011 - 2007

Postdoctoral fellow

The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Microbial Ecology Lab

Austin, USA.

current - 2020

• Currently studing the ecology and evolution of microbes by understanding their metabolism, using metagenomics.
• Advisor: Brett Baker

Postdoctoral fellow

Ecology Institute, A.C. Genomics and transcriptomics lab

Xalapa, MX.

2020 - 2017

• I studied the interaction among plants-insects-microbes. - I designed a dignosys system to identify Fusarium kurosho using genomics. - I studied the defense mecanisms of Persea americana var. Hass to the attac of the Mexican Fruit Fly, using transcriptomics. - I analyze the microbiome of the Mexican Fruit Fly.
• Advisor: Mart√≠n Aluja and Enrique Ibarra-Laclette

Guest Research

The University of Toronto. Guttman Laboratory of Pathogen Genomics and Evolution

Toronto, CA

2015

• Realized the pan-genome analysis of the genomes that I used for my PhD thesis.
• Advisor: David Guttman

Guest Research

National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity

Irapuato, MX

2014

• I learned how to assembly and annotate genomes.
• Advisor: Enrique Ibarra-Laclette

Guest Research

Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute

Irapuato, MX

2011

• I designed a bacteria that was capable of sensing the arsenic consentrations in water.
• Advisor: Agustino Mart√≠nez Antonio

Frontiers in Science research grant by National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt in Spanish)

Elucidate the potential effect of climate change on the growing problem of altitudinal expansion and host shifts in agricultural pests.

Xalapa, MX.

2022 - 2019

• Co-written with PI Martin Aluja

Postdoctoral Scholar Program

The interplay between community composition, metabolic interactions, and strain level pan-genome diversity of diatoms and their epibiotic bacteria.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

2019

• Individual Postdoc proposal

Young professor  (Catedra) research grant by National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt in Spanish)

Bioinformatics for the generation and interpretation of omic data linked to the Mexican fruit production and the optimization of the biorational management of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).

N/A

2018

• Co-written with PI Martin Aluja.

Member of the national system of researchers (SNI in spanish) at the candidate level.

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N/A

2019

Support program for graduate students (PAEP in Spanish). Viatical support to attend “An Anvi’o workshop in Montreal”

N/A

Montreal, CA.

2016

Support program for graduate students (PAEP in Spanish). Viatical support to make a research stay at the Guttman Lab.

N/A

Toronto, CA

2015

Support program for graduate students (PAEP in Spanish). Viatical support to attend to Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology

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New Hampshire, USA

2015

Scholarship from CONACyT to perform a PhD. at the Ecology Institute, UNAM.

N/A

Mexico City, MX

2012

Scholarship of Academic Excellence for Student Mobility, UNAM, and Coca-Cola to study for one year at the Complutense University of Madrid at the faculty of science.

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Madrid, ES

2010